Nicola Sturgeon has claimed Liz Truss asked her how to get into Vogue magazine when they briefly met last year - despite the Tory leadership candidate…

Nearly 50,000 people have signed a petition backing former prime minister Gordon Brown's call for an emergency budget to tackle the cost-of-living…

The government is working on a package of cost of living support for the next prime minister, the chief secretary to the Treasury has said.

Allies of Rishi Sunak have played down the defection of a Tory MP to supporting Liz Truss as the two campaign teams continued to trade blows over economic…

Schools do not have a legal obligation to comply with gender preferences of their pupils, Attorney General Suella Braverman has said.

Rishi Sunak has promised to give "hundreds of pounds" more to people for energy bills while Liz Truss refused to commit to extra support for struggling…

Liz Truss has hit back at claims that her plans for an emergency tax-cutting budget would be an "electoral suicide note", accusing Rishi Sunak's supporters…

Liz Truss has shifted her focus to tackling anti-social behaviour after a bruising weekend over the cost of living crisis - while Rishi Sunak has pledged…

The Liberal Democrats are demanding parliament be recalled from its summer recess to pass a law to scrap impending hikes in energy prices.

The next prime minister is facing calls to immediately increase Universal Credit payments to stop vulnerable people spiralling further into poverty…

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are coming under growing pressure to explain how they would help British families with the cost of living crisis this autumn.

Liz Truss was not ruling out future cost of living support when she said she would reject "handouts", her supporters have said, with prominent backer…

Rishi Sunak has said Nicola Sturgeon needs to be beaten rather than ignored, aiming a dig at Liz Truss who earlier this week called Scotland's first…

Liz Truss has pledged to "immediately" reverse the increase in National Insurance if she wins the race for Number 10.

Rishi Sunak has vowed to phase out university degrees that do not improve students' "earning potential", under plans to reform education if he became…